Member of Parliament for Ketu South, Fifi Kwetey has waded into Special Development Iniative Minister Mavis Hawa Koomson’s shooting incidence brouhaha.
According to him, failure by the President to sack and prosecute Hawa Koomson is a sign that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is willing to do anything to continue to be in power.
Hawa Koomson had admitted firing a gun at a voters registration centre at her constituency where she is also an MP, Awutu Senya East.
She explained that it was an act of self defense as her security personnel had not yet reported for work.
There have since been calls by various civil society groups and personalities for her to be sacked, however, that is yet to be seen.
Speaking on the Big Issue on Citi FM/TV, Fifi Kwetey said, “we have a government that is in power and is simply desperate to continue to be in power at every cost. What Hawa Koomson did, is simply a reflection of that same mentality. It is a desperate mentality. It is a mentality that believes that I need to do anything I can to remain in power.”
He cited the failure of government to punish perpetrators of violence at the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency and stressed same is going to be for Hawa Koomson.
“She also did so because right from the word go, what we have seen under this regime is nothing too short of impunity. Right from the very seat at the Presidency, hoodlums of the NPP attacked a senior police officer in January 2017, what was done to any of them? Absolutely Nothing! Similar incidents have happened in different parts of the country and nothing has been done. With the by-election in Ayawaso West Wougoun, what did we not see? What was done about it? Nothing!”
“What has the President done about the recommendation that came out of it? Nothing! So of course, if Hawa Koomson sees that this level of impunity is prevailing in the country, why would she not believe that she is capable of going to the registration centre and be firing guns because she believes that nothing is going to happen,” he said.
He added, “All this talk about the police doing investigations, you and I know where this is going to end. It is going to end nowhere. The President himself can whitewash a whole report that he himself commissioned to be done…the party [NPP] itself has set a motion that nothing is going to happen. So for me, it is not coming to me as a surprise. Zero is going to be done.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com
